Machine for making printers  types



UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

SAMUEL S. VEED, OF STONEHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR MAKING PRINTERS TYPES.

Specification forminggI part of Letters Patent No. E 3,609, dated Septtnlber 525, 1855.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be.it known that I, SAMUEL S. VEED, of Stoneham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful or Improved Machine for Making Printers7 Types by Pressure; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully describedand represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, letters, figures, and references thereof.

Of such drawings, Figure 1 denotes a top view of my said machine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of it. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section -of the movable and bed dies and feeding apparatus at or near one corner of the machine. Fig. 4 is an inner side view of the bed-die. Fig. 5 is an inner side View of the movable bodydie.

The objectof my machine is to manufacture copper or other metallic printing-types from a rod or rods, such being separated by the mechanism into blanks or short pieces, and each of such blanks forged with a body and a letter of right shape. Common printing-types are usually made by casting in a mold the metal of which they are composed, although what are termed book-binders stampingtypes77 are generally made of copper or brass, and are cut or formed by hand labor or workmen with proper tools. I am not aware that letter-press types for printing have been made from wire or rods and in dies by pressure. That such can be accomplished at about the cost of making founded type and so as to produce a type in copper or brass, not only equal in finish to such founded type, but far superior in point of durability, I have fully demonstrated by a machine substantially ofthe kind to be hereinafter specified.

My machine,although in many respects similar to machines for making rivets or nails by pressure in dies, is new in its application to the manufacture of types, and differs materially, to the best of my knowledge, from any such machines for making nails or such llike articles.

In the drawings, (see Figs. 1, 2, and 3,) A denotes an open frame for sustaining the operative parts of the machine. In the middle of such frame is a vertical shaft, B, which carries a horizontal cam, C, formed, as seen in Fig. 1, to operate in connection with four pitmen, DDD D, andfourseries of toggles orprogressive levers, EE, F F, G G, H H, arranged about the cam and inside of the upper post of the frame A,seen as in Fig. 1. The'toggles abut against and are jointed to bearers or blocks a c, b b, disposed at or near opposite corners of the frame, while at the two opposite corners are arranged the type-forming dies and mechanism for cutting off the rod. Each set of these dies is composed of a stationary body or bcd die, I, a movable bed or body die, K, a letter-die, L, a bottomingdie, M, and receiving-orifice and separator N, the positions of the several parts with respect to each other being seen in the drawings.

The letter-die is for forming the letter on one end of the type. The body-dies form the body in the shape required. The bottomingdie squeezes or forms the opposite end of the type, and, with the letter-die, determines the length of its body. The receivingorice N has the rod extended through it from the feeding mechanism, and during its movement it carries said rod against the edge of the bodydie I, by which a blank will be severed from the rod and crowded into the body-dies, they acting by pressure on the opposite sides of the blank. A retroactive spring, P, is applied to each set of toggles, as seen in Fig. 1, for the purpose of moving them back and opening the dies after each type has been made.

Each feedingapparatus is composed of a] lever, R, a nipper, S, and a rod, T, provided with shoulders U V, arranged as seen in the drawings. The lever R turns on a pin or fulcrum, W, and is connected to the adjacent set of toggles, G G or E E, by an extension of their pitrnan, which slides freely through the frame A, and isjointed to the lever at one end of it.

The nipper, formed as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, is carried in the end of the lever R, which is bifurcated for the reception of the nipper, such nipper turning on a pin, d, extending down through it and the lever, and sliding on the rod T. During the time that each of the two toggles of each set are being moved toward a straight line with each other the lever R will be moved so as to force the type-rod inward between the dies, it being held to the lever by the nipper, which previously has been forced against it by the action of the outer shoulder, U, of the rod T during the body or bed die l, a bottoming-die, M, and reeeiving-oriee N.

2. The combination of the feeding-lever R, the nipper S, and the rod T, provided With shoulders U V, as set forth, the Whole being for the purpose of feeding the type-rod into the mechanism or its dies, as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 21st day of July, 1855.

SAMUEL S. WEED.

Vitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

